(765 ILCS 5/31) (from Ch. 30, par. 30)
Sec. 31.
Deeds, mortgages and other instruments of writing relating to real
estate shall be deemed, from the time of being filed for record, notice to
subsequent purchasers and creditors, though not acknowledged or proven
according to law; but the same shall not be read as evidence, unless their
execution be proved in manner required by the rules of evidence applicable
to such writings, so as to supply the defects of such acknowledgment or
proof.
(Source: Laws 1871-2, p. 282.)
|